SOVIET RULE.
ENGLISH CORRESPONDENT'S STORY. BOLSHEVISM GAINING GROUND. • BY CABL2—i?E£SS ASSOCIATION—COFxIUGKr (Times.) (Received Feb. 14, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 12. The Times' special eonespondcnt in •Soviet Russia, describing his experiences, declares, that the social conditions could hardly be worse. Russia industrially is almost at a standstill. Politically the Bolshevists have increased their hold on the masses of the people, who have now given up hopes of deliverance through the AlJies. Bolshevism is fast gaining .ground with all classes, though hated and distrusted by nearly everybody, 'but the people see no other choice. Oast iron discipline is welding the masses into a great soulless machine. and well disciplined, the Hed army is a force to be seriously reckoned with.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXX, Issue LXXX, 14 February 1920, Page 9
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118SOVIET RULE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXX, Issue LXXX, 14 February 1920, Page 9
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